Chapter Review Questions

You can find the answers to the following questions in Appendix A, "Answers to Chapter Review Questions."

1:

What types of user devices are most common with wireless WANs?

2:

Why do wireless WAN operators always charge for services?

3:

Why must you be careful when selecting a wireless WAN radio NIC for your user device?

4:

What is an advantage of a satellite system?

5:

Which generation of cellular systems offers data rates up to 2 Mbps?

6:

Which type of wireless WAN system is most common?

7:

Which of the two following cellular systems offers the highest data rates: GPRS or UMTS?

8:

What is the primary issue with meteor burst communications?

9:

True or false: FDMA requires users to take turns transmitting signals.

10:

How does CDMA keep users from interfering with each other?